Summary
A new leak fromGenshin Impactis teasing a major quality-of-life update to the game’s local specialties with the launch of Natlan, making in-game resource farming easier. The popular RPG from HoYoverse features a wide variety of different resources for players to collect, used for powering up characters, weapons, and more. Beyond Primogems as the main gacha currency, players can collect many different types of herbs and ores, as well asfarming Talent and Ascension materials fromGenshin Impact’s Domains. However, one type of resource can be a particular pain to gather.
Local specialties are a core resource withinGenshin Impact, serving an important purpose for players looking to level up their characters.Genshin Impactprimarily uses its local specialties as materials for players to expend when ascending their Characters, with many also used in different food dishes. Owed to their name, local specialties are also unique to their associated region inGenshin Impact, which can often make farming the limited resources a hassle for many players. Now,Genshin Impactmay be looking to ease the local specialty farming grind in a future update.
Genshin Impact Leak Hints at Local Specialty Update
A new leak shared by prominentGenshin Impactleaker Miruko is showing off a helpfulquality-of-life update to local specialties. According to the leak, HoYoverse is planning to add a better method of trackingGenshin Impact’s local specialtiesin-game, now showing a blue circle to point out locations for local specialties. The circles on theGenshin Impactmap will also feature small icons, denoting precise locations and how many specialties are available in that location. The leak does not confirm when the local specialty quality-of-life upgrade will be introduced toGenshin Impact.
The introduction of a more effective means to track local specialties comes as the HoYoverse RPG is gearing up to add several new regional items to the game. The launch of Natlan in Version 5.0 will likely add multiple local specialties to the game, used to level up the brand-new characters fromGenshin Impact’s next region. HoYoverse has already confirmed three characters launching alongside Natlan, with Mualani, Kachina, andKinich all expected to use new itemsin their Character Ascension. Version 5.0 is currently scheduled to launch in late August.
The new update to local specialties joins a trend of significant quality-of-life updates made toGenshin Impactthroughout the past year. HoYoverse has made sweeping changes to the RPG throughout the Fontaine cycle, including an overhaul to the daily commission system and inventory improvements.Genshin Impacteven recently changed its boss cooldowns, speeding up the long timers between repeating the game’s World Bosses. HoYoverse’s aim towards quality-of-life improvements looks to draw in even more players as Natlan’s debut approaches.
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